Was rotoscoping used in "The Plague Dogs"?

Question

Just watched The Plague Dogs, made the same guy who did the animated Watership Down movie (Plague Dogs was written by the same author as well).

According to imdb.com, it was made "without the use of rotoscoping or computers." Can't exactly trust imdb's "trivia" as no references are given. Obviously no computers were used. But unless I'm mistaken there were several instances of rotoscoping.

The dogs don't look rotoscoped, but there are several shots that look like they were. Specifically there's a shot of a man's hand in the beginning, and throughout the film there are objects in the foreground and background that look rotoscoped, like logs changing perspective as the "camera" pans across.

Does anyone with traditional animation knowledge/experience know if that was rotoscoping?

I've noticed the rotoscope look in several older animated films, like An American Tale. So either that very accurate look that rotoscope provides has disappeared form animated films with rotoscoping not being used as much any more...or there just aren't any good animators in Hollywood anymore.

Answer 1

It's tough to say that it wasn't.  Except that it and Watership Downs, while equally intended to present a realistic approach to the material, cover a lot of material which it would be tough to capture footage to trace.

On the other hand, of course, if it wasn't what was Tom Bertino doing on it?

Your last sentence has some problematic opinions, by the way.  The Matrix videos used Rotoscoping and a similar realistic style.  And they were only a few years ago.  Just because the large distributors/Monopolists are not willing to support this sort of expensive animation -- and it is expensive -- doesn't mean there aren't plenty of talented people around the industry.